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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Defeating Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Without Drugs

Please join us on Tuesday February
21st, 2012 at 4pm pacific as we host Terry Wahls, MD for a webinar entitled “UP from the Chair:Defeating Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Without Drugs.”

We
are privileged to have Dr. Terry Wahls as a presenter at HawthornUniversity. In 2003 Dr. Wahls was diagnosed with
secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Her body ravaged by secondary
progressive multiple sclerosis, Dr. Terry Wahls spent nearly four years
dependent upon a tilt-recline wheelchair.
Now, thanks to the intensive, directed nutrition and neuromuscular
electrical stimulation protocols she developed, Dr. Wahls now rides her bicycle
to work.

Dr.
Wahls will tell us the compelling story of how she recovered from debilitating,
progressive multiple sclerosis using food as her primary medicine. She'll discuss her struggles to find meaning
as she became dependent, and her rediscovery of basic science leading to an
unexpected outcome from self-experimentation. She will also discuss her current
research with others using the Wahls Protocol™.

"Hoping
to find something to arrest my descent into becoming bedridden, I used
PubMed.gov to begin searching the scientific articles about the latest multiple
sclerosis research. Night after night, I relearned biochemistry, cellular
physiology, and neuroimmunology to understand the articles. Unfortunately, most
of the studies were testing drugs that were years away from FDA approval. Then
it occurred to me to search for vitamins and supplements that helped any kind
of progressive brain disorder. Slowly I created a list of nutrients important
to brain health and began taking them as supplements. The steepness of my
decline slowed, for which I was grateful, but I still was declining.

"In
the fall of 2007, I had an important epiphany. What if I redesigned my diet so
that I was getting those important brain nutrients not from supplements but
from the foods I ate? It took more time to create this new diet, intensive
directed nutrition, which I designed to provide optimal nutrition for my brain.
At that time, I also learned about neuromuscular electrical stimulation and
convinced my physical therapist to give me a test session. The results stunned
my physician, my family and me: within a year, I was able to walk through the
hospital without a cane and even complete an 18-mile bicycle tour. Getting my
life back was a gift I did not believe was possible."

Dr.
Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver
College of Medicine in Iowa City,
Iowa, U.S.A.,
where she teaches internal medicine residents in their primary care
clinics. She also runs clinical research
and have published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific abstracts, posters and
papers. She has brought together an interdisciplinary team to conduct clinical trials
using intensive, directed nutrition and neuromuscular electrical stimulation to
combat advanced Parkinson's disease and secondary and primary progressive
multiple sclerosis. She is also committed to helping the public learn about the
connection between the foods we eat and the health we have or do not have and
lectures nationally and regionally on the use of intensive, directed nutrition
to restore health. The Food as Medicine
lecture series hosted by the KirkwoodCommunity College and New
Pioneer Food Cooperative has transformed the lives of many people. Terry lives in Iowa City with her spouse, Jackie, and has
two children.

She
is the author of: "Minding My Mitochondria 2nd Edition: How I overcame
secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and got out of my
wheelchair." She also has many CD's
on Food as Medicine and on the use of dietary intervention and neuromuscular
electric stimulation. Her websites are: www.terrywahls.com and www.mindingmymitochondria.com

Fifty
percent of the profits from the sales of the lecture DVDs and audio CDs is used
to support clinical research in the area of nutrition, meditation, massage,
exercise and neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the setting of progressive
multiple sclerosis.

To participate online and to
view the webinar click here and follow the
online registration instructions:

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Kathy McDermott

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